Dance, the choice of our associations to create a social link with young people marginalized by disability, migration or precariousness.

As an opportunity to face isolation due to migration and precariousness linked to difficult migratory paths, dance seems to be a communication vector of choice to make the body speak when words are scarce.

To put into movement a body prostrated by shame, erased by prostheses, invisibilized by isolation or preconceived ideas; the motivation of our project leaders is the same: to break down the borders!

Each one has his own style, his own side step, his own discipline, but for all of them, the same rigor to invest the stage and all its corners.

From a classical, contemporary, hip-hop or hybridized gesture, new singular languages are created at each meeting, at each audience.

The choreographers Eric Minh Cuong Castaing with the Théâtre du Châtelet, Bintou Dembélé with Rualité, Rodolphe Fouillot with What Dance Can Do, Maxime Thomas on the project "En musique pour plus d'humanité" of Ostinato, are committed and mobilized with the youth in search of a new and different visibility.

Artistic creation as a social link or even as an act of political demand, discover the words of these artists through their portraits on the website www.fondsfranciskurkdjian.org.

In the meantime, let's have a look at PARC produced on the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet in October and soon on other stages in France as well as the Rite of passage solo II by Bintou Dembélé and performed by the dancer Meech at the Palais de la Porte Dorée at the end of November.

"The main challenge of such a project is that I would say that we must first create a chain of trust bringing together the whole ecosystem that surrounds them: the caregivers, the parents, the directors, with the theater team (the theaters' public relations, the technical team) and us (dancers, the production team..). Without this chain, the workshop process to get on stage cannot be fluid, flexible and adapted, listening to each child." - Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Choreographer of _P/\RC__

"The first opening of the rehearsals on stage was a very intense moment. For the first time, the children from all the partner structures were together, whether physically on the stage or remotely with the robots. The feedback from _P/\RC___ was very positive: a complete show with nearly 700 spectators over the 4 performances, a success with the public and the press." - Théâtre du Châtelet.

Finally, December offers us the unique and iconoclastic moment of a classical concert played by the Orchestre atelier Ostinato within the walls of the Melun prison.

As a prelude to the final concert on February 17, where the inmates will be percussionists, this project, which began in April 2022, illustrates the Orchestre Atelier's desire to fight against loneliness and isolation by allowing a form of escape and reintegration where everyone has a role and a place!

To make society in all ways, that is the positioning we share with all these projects.

Thus, the Francis Kurkdjian Endowment Fund is happy to contribute to the creation of opportunities for these isolated and vulnerable people through these ambitious projects. Be sure to follow the news of each of them on our website www.fondsfranciskurkdjian.org by subscribing to our newsletter here.